Chelsea in Orbit won a few local awards last year for their self-titled CD. In an interview with the Philadelphia Musician Resource Kitchen, Greg from Chelsea in Orbit has the following to say about his home town and its music scene:”The scene lacks enough quality musicians. Parts of South Jersey may as well be Kentucky.…

Today I came across a CD from the band Laughing Colors. It was their 1998 album, The Pattern Seed, and I had heard of the band because we played Grape Street the same night once or twice. The CD was signed, “To Jen. You Rock!” followed by a random band member’s signature. Jen must have…

It wasn’t my first time at Fergie’s, but it was my first time stopping by their Monday night open mic. It was pretty popular compared to the times I visited Adam Brodsky’s antihoot there. I took the speedline over to Philly and someone on the train said they remembered me from the Living Room open…

You can vote online for your favorites in the Philly Music Awards. I wonder how the nomination process works. I know part of the nominations are done by people turning in ballots at local venues, but these have to be stuffed by people who work for the bands or are in the bands themselves. Hopefully…

John Shaughnessy recently attened the open mic at Harper’s Pub in Clementon, NJ, home of some of the area’s most dangerous roller coasters.Well, Clementon, NJ is not exactly my neighborhood, but I actually met myfolks (yeah, M & D) at Harper’s Thursday for some wings and beer, and to play some songs at the Open…

Someone please tell me what the hell was going on this morning on 42 southbound? It was closed until 12:00PM to make way for a million motorcycles heading somewhere. Dozens of people were watching and cheering them on along the highway. I couldn’t turn around and ended up getting dumped onto a heavily crowded 295…

If you’re a registered user you should see a few links at the top of this page for MP3s of my April 8th set at the GSP open mic. Because one of my database tables became corrupted last week everyone has to log back in if you haven’t done so already. Sorry about that. The…

I’m treating my guitar poorly. It’s had a broken string for 5 days now and I still haven’t replaced it, although I did buy some new strings. I’m going to try out Elixirs and see how they sound. I’ve been listening to my new recordings a lot and I think I’ll post the “99%”, but…

By now most people are fans of the Iraqi Information Minister, but did anyone know he broadcasted a few messages about me? Clip 1 Clip 2 Thanks Brian for sending me the links!

Collingswood favorite Jason Wheatley has some gigs coming up, courtesy of Happy Cat Records. Thursday April 24 @ 7:30pm Coffee Works – Voorhees NJ (near the ritz theaters) Tuesday April 29 @ 8:30pm $5 cover Grape Street Pub (upstairs Acoustic Lounge)The current poll is pretty popular. The masses have spoken out in force against the…

Roz wrote a short recap of our show last weekend, which is a first for his website. BenGarvey played my break and did a pretty good Job.I always enjoy hearing him play.Unfortantly I had to take car of some stuff in the truck so I missed part of that aliens on 206 song that he’s…

I hung out in the emergency room until 4:00AM on Saturday night because my future sister-in-law had to get stiches after stepping on poor ceramic piglet. It’s moments like these I’m grateful I carry my digital camera with me.

Thanks to everyone who came out last night (Mike, Corinne, Jake, Rich, Jeanne, and Sarah Allen and her friends). I can’t say it was one of my best shows, but I had a pretty good time. Breaking a string 5 minutes into my set will do that. I knew those light gauge strings would do…

If you want to come out to tonight’s show at the Daily Grind in Mt. Holly, here are the directions. Things will probably get started around 8:00 – 8:30PM. One of my database tables was corrupted today, resulting in the site being down for a while. I fixed it, but I have no idea what…

Hopefully the Living Room’s open mic retirement will be like Michael Jordan’s. Not his real retirement tonight, but his fake ones of years past. I had a lot of fun going to the Wednesday night open mics over the last year or so and it’s a shame the owner is putting it to sleep. I…

This is beyond funny. Someone posts a message at Origivation claiming to need bands for the upcoming film, “Howard the Duck 2” and no less than 10 BANDS replied with their contact information. The Phoenix Trap’s Chad Gorn even admitted he still likes Howard the Duck. Here is my response. Wanted: List of people who…

I just found out Beck has been doing some weblogging on his latest Philadelphialess tour (The Feztival doesn’t count). He’s a good writer and offers some insight into dealing with the press.usually what interviewers do is find something that somebody said somewhere about you that wasn’t particularly nice, then ask you “a lot of people…

I don’t know whether there is going to be an open mic tonight at the Living Room in Collingswood, NJ. If the rumors of shutting down Wednesday nights are true then I’ll be pretty disappointed. I had a lot of fun going there each week, especially last summer. I don’t even want to know how…

The latest additions to my CD collection have been great. Here’s a quick rundown of what I’m listening to. 1. The White Stripes – Elephant: I’m really impressed their follow up to White Blood Cells doesn’t suck. In fact, it’s great. The solo’s guitar tone on “Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine” makes my…

Tonight I coded up a new PostNuke Block that randomly displays a link stored in my database. I have over 50 links in there with descriptions, but hardly anyone ever goes into the links section. The block is a nice way to use the content so more people can enjoy it. Some day I’ll have…